Tim joined Tom Barnard and the morning show crew on the “The KQ Morning Show” on KQRS-FM to review the new theatrical releases “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Montana Story.” Tim also reviewed the films with Paul Douglas on the “Paul and Jordana” show on WCCO-AM on Friday, as well as Kelly Cordes on “It Matters with Kelly Cordes” on WJON-AM. Click to listen to below. All of Tim’s segments are brought to you by Michael Bryant, and Bradshaw and Bryant.
Above: Tim reviews “Top Gun: Maverick” with Kelly Cordes on WJON-AM.
Tim Lammers reviews movies weekly for “The KQ92 Morning Show” with Tom Barnard on KQRS-FM, “Paul and Jordana” with Paul Douglas and Jordana Green on WCCO Radio, “It Matters with Kelly Cordes” on WJON-AM, KLZZ-FM, “The Tom Barnard Podcast” and “The BS Show” with Bob Sansevere, and reviews streaming programming on WCCO Radio’s “Paul and Jordana” as well. On TV, Tim has made hundreds of guest appearances on NBC affiliate KARE on the news program “KARE 11 News at 11”.
In a recently unearthed basement tape, I found an interview I did with one of my all-time favorites, Val Kilmer, about his 2005 action comedy “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.” Kilmer starred along Robert Downey Jr. and Michelle Monaghan in the film, which was directed by Shane Black and produced by Joel Silver.
Back in the day, I used to record all of my interviews for my print articles on cassette tape, and the conversations have rarely been heard publicly. Interestingly enough, while Kilmer’s produced an amazing body of work including “Top Gun,” “Tombstone,” and “Heat,” I didn’t bring up any of those films in my conversation with Kilmer. That’s because I was completely blown away by “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” and the actors’ flawless performance in the picture, that the thoughts of Kilmer’s previous films, quite honestly, didn’t even enter my mind.
Sadly, Kilmer has battled some serious health issues in the past decade, which makes this opportunity I had to talk him with feel all the more poignant. Since he’s making his big-screen comeback this week in an emotional turn in “Top Gun: Maverick,” I felt now is a good time as any to share a couple clips from the interview, with the promise of much more to come!
BELOW: Kilmer discusses his fateful meeting with Robert Downey Jr., which quickly led to him joining “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.”
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BELOW: Kilmer talks about how “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang” gave him the rare opportunity to act in a comedy.
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BELOW: The first time I talked with Kilmer was during a roundtable session for his sci-fi thriller “Red Planet” in 2000. Click to hear Kilmer and his co-star Simon Baker below.
Tim Lammers reviews movies weekly for “The KQ92 Morning Show” with Tom Barnard on KQRS-FM, “Paul and Jordana” with Paul Douglas and Jordana Green on WCCO Radio, “It Matters with Kelly Cordes” on WJON-AM, KLZZ-FM, “The Tom Barnard Podcast” and “The BS Show” with Bob Sansevere, and reviews streaming programming on WCCO Radio’s “Paul and Jordana” as well. On TV, Tim has made hundreds of guest appearances on NBC affiliate KARE on the news program “KARE 11 News at 11”.
Tim joined Tom Barnard and the Morning Show crew on the “The KQ Morning Show” on KQRS-FM Thursday to review the new theatrical/Disney+ with Premier Access release “Jungle Cruise” and Val Kilmer documentary “Val.” On Friday, Tim reviewed the films with Jordana Green on the “Paul and Jordana” show on WCCO-AM. Click to listen to everything below. All of the segments are brought to you by Michael Bryant and Bradshaw & Bryant.
Tim Lammers reviews movies weekly for “The KQ92 Morning Show” with Tom Barnard on KQRS-FM, “Paul and Jordana” with Paul Douglas and Jordana Green on WCCO Radio, “It Matters with Kelly Cordes” on WJON-AM, KLZZ-FM, “Let’s Talk Movies with Tim Lammers” with Tim Matthews on KRWC-AM, “The Tom Barnard Podcast” and “The BS Show” with Bob Sansevere, and reviews streaming programming on WCCO Radio’s “Paul and Jordana” as well. On TV, Tim has made hundreds of guest appearances on NBC affiliate KARE on the news program “KARE 11 News at 11”.
Michael Fassbender gets trapped in a depressing blizzard of dreariness that he can’t escape in “The Snowman,” a deeply disappointing and depressing crime thriller from executive producer Martin Scorsese and director Tomas Alfredson (“Tinker Tailor Solider Spy”).
Based on the acclaimed novel by Jo Neso, Fassbender plays grizzled Norwegian detective Harry Hole, whose interest in a decades-old cold case murder and dismemberment of a woman is reawakened by the killer’s re-emergence and brutal killing spree.
AUDIO: Listen to Tim review “The Snowman” with Tom Barnard on “The KQ92 Morning Show” (segment begins 10 minutes in).
While the film’s Oslo setting is breathtaking, “The Snowman” fails to gain any sort of momentum from the very beginning, and quickly devolves from there into a dull and confusing story that fails to get its footing until the film’s predictable conclusion.
Scorsese, who was at one time attached to the direct the film, wisely stepped away from this disaster of a movie, which is so bad that even the talents of Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, J.K. Simmons and Val Kilmer can’t save it. You can’t entirely blame Alfredson for the failure of the film, as he recently tried to distance himself from the film by saying that he didn’t have enough time on the production to shoot 10 to 15 percent of the script.
With revelations like that, there’s no doubt that “The Snowman” was doomed to fail, and the memories of this stained mark on the resume of all those involved can’t melt and wash away soon enough.
